Wednesday, April 20, 2016

In posting bellow we are going to demonstrate Chrome Advanced REST Client
successfully
issuing REST API POST requests for creating RDO Mitaka Servers (VMs) as
well as getting information about servers via GET requests.
All required HTTP Headers are configured in GUI environment as well as
body request field for servers creation.

However, the authentication APIs and EC2 APIs are indefinitely deprecated and will not be removed in the ‘Q’ release.

Following [ 1 ] to authenticate access to OpenStack Services, you are supposed first of all to issue an authentication request to get authentication token. If the request succeeds, the server
returns an authentication token.

Source keystonerc_demo on Controller or on Compute node. It doesn't
matter. Then run this cURL command to request a token:

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Following bellow is a couple of samples REST API POST requests starting servers as they are usually described and issued ( [ 2 ] ).
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